Amazing is the recent interest in full, live, operating systems that can fit on a 50 MB CD-ROM. It's totally astounding that they can cram so much onto such a tiny disk. But wait.. let's run back to the days of old.. back to say 1988.

Get over it! While I agree that optimizing software should be a key element in the software development cycle, I would never give up the luxuries I have on GNOME today for a 1980 something Amiga, or a 1953 Punch Card Computer. Yeah, a punch card system needed less than 10 kilobyte of storage, but so what?